Gary Anderson, administrative services director for Murfreesboro City Schools, discusses a tentative plan for rezoning in the school system at Tuesday's board meeting.

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Amanda Haggard
The Daily News Journal

Starting next school year, many Murfreesboro City School parents may be sending their children to sit at new desks at different schools.

Murfreesboro City School Board members met in a special session Tuesday to discuss tentative plans to rezone city schools in what Gary Anderson, administrative services director, calls the largest rezoning in Murfreesboro City Schools in 12 years.

With planning for construction of Overall Creek Elementary due to overcrowding at other schools, Anderson said, rezoning is necessary to ensure the school system does not face similar overcrowding issues ...